Genre

Historical Fiction books

Stories set in the past.

98 books

Ages 10–14

The Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ages 8–12

Safe

Elijah of Buxton

Christopher Paul Curtis

Ages 9–12

Ages 8–12

They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Ages 14–18

Caution

To Kill a Mockingbird

Ages 13–18

Ages 10–14

Ages 9–14

Ages 12–16

The Race to Save the Lord God Bird

Phillip Hoose

Ages 11–15

Safe

Fever 1793

Laurie Halse Anderson

Ages 10–14

Safe

The Eagle of the Ninth

Rosemary Sutcliff

Ages 12–16

Caution

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Ages 12–16

Safe

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village

Laura Amy Schlitz

Ages 9–12

Caution

My Brother Sam Is Dead

James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Ages 12–16

Ages 12–16

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Ages 13–17

Ages 10–14

Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Ages 10–14

Ages 14–18

Ages 10–14

Ages 9–9

Ages 9–12

Laurie Halse Anderson

Ages 10–14

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